911 call: Ohio girl, 8, witnesses mother’s murder

Updated at: 07/17/2013 11:35 AM
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(AP) KENTON, Ohio - Recordings of 911 calls captured the last moments of an Ohio woman and the panic of the 8-year-old girl who witnessed her mother’s fatal stabbing and the suicide of the man who killed her.

In a call fielded Tuesday by the Hardin County Sheriff’s Office in northwest Ohio, Teresa Nelson reported that her ex-boyfriend, Justin Manns, was banging on her door and threatening to kill himself on her porch. She is heard telling him: "You literally scare me."

The dispatcher told Nelson officers were on the way, but about five minutes into the call Mann broke into the house. Nelson, 28, is heard telling her 8-year-old daughter to go into another room.